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Re: futuron
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lugnet.space
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:32:27 GMT
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Hi,
Matthew Wilkins wrote:
> In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > "Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:
> > > I don't know why either, I got my red one from the minifig pack, it was
> > > always interesting to wonder why that is. Maybe LC (TLG, TLC, LG, LC,
> > > etc.) had a special ranking system, and they decided to scatter them
> > > around. I wonder what the ratio of the Classic Space minifig colors are,
> > > and what minifigs are rare in that theme?
> >
> > This is one that had my friends and I scratching our then-preadolescent heads
> > way back when too, and just when we thought we'd figured it out, the
> > introduction of minifig packs really threw off any attempt at calculation.
> > General acclaim was that the black Classic minifigs (not the diagonal-zipper
> > type) were the rarest, and this seems to jibe with the experience of everyone
> > I've asked thus far. Blue seem second rarest because of their comparatively
> > short existence, and white, gold, and red in that order. But that could also
> > be an artifact of when I was collecting--I have tons of blue, but I know
> > that's because my consumption was heaviest between about 1983 and 1986.
> > (Rarest of all must be the earliest sticker-torso ones--but do we count those
> > as different?)
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> See, now I have a completely different distribution of Classic Space 'figs. My
> collection started in '78, (with a sticker-torso red, but I digress) and I
> collected until about 1986 or so. I have in my (MIA) Classic Space collection
> 67 white Classic 'figs (peons, laborers, technicians), 32 red 'figs (pilots)
> 14 yellow figs (computer techs) and 1 black one (The Admiral, who roared about
> in his personal Gamma V Laser Craft).
Yeah, I added white epaulettes to mine and made them officers, and one has a
Spyrius droid head. My "grand admiral" is a black Classic minifig who was
incomplete--no helmet--and I put a black officer's cap on him. The "great leader"
of the entire clutch is a very old minifig--he's got a black torso with a blue
waistcoat, and IIRC he was one of the very early articulated Town minifigs. But
add a black jetpack, some epaulettes, and a blue officer cap, and presto! Instant
politico.
The other colours were as follows: Red were ground troops or marines; white were
ship technicians and crew; blue were pilots or navigators; and yellow were the
lowest "all-officer" cadre. Red space fellas are easily the most numerous of my
minifigs, and I think they're still the most numerous single minifig type that I
have (although a few now have female faces), fifteen years and almost 100,000
pieces later. *wistful sigh*
I do wish they'd have that level of uniformity in a theme again--the minifigs were
simple but still elegant. The closest Space theme in terms of minifig uniformity
and aesthetic value recently has been Exploriens. Of course, I still consider
BT-I the hands-down winner on the aesthetic front.
best
Lindsay (who just got his auction winnings, including a complete Solar Power
Transporter, from the UK today!)
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| (...) See, now I have a completely different distribution of Classic Space 'figs. My collection started in '78, (with a sticker-torso red, but I digress) and I collected until about 1986 or so. I have in my (MIA) Classic Space collection 67 white (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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